The Alaska Board of Fisheries took no action on proposals that would have restricted clamming on a west Cook Inlet beach.
As we previously reported, clam digging on eastern Cook Inlet beaches was closed by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game for the rest of 2015 via emergency order.
Kerkvliet: “The number of age classes are fairly limited on this beach right now and so what we’re looking to see is a recruitment and a good spawning.”
That was Biologist Carol Kerkvliet with ADF&G and department findings have shown a decrease in numbers and size of clams in the past decade.
With the Board’s recent inaction, Kenai Peninsula residents worry that the eastern Cook Inlet’s Polly Creek beach could become an over used destination for razor clams.
